Simming Adventures of a Builder

Simming Adventures of builder, who cannot build, but still tries. Follow me building my hoods. TS2 only. WCIF friendly

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Welcome to my blog:

Here I will archive screenshots of neighborhoods I build for fun on my freetime:

Hoods:

Pinecone Cove tag

Greycliffe Tag

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Long time no see!

My attention was grabbed by that new fix for pink flashing, so I finally found time to install it and it seems I finally will be able not only to finish my no cc Belladonna Cove makeover (only cc used is hood deco here) but also make it over with full cc and play it. Because last I tried to work on this, I was not able to place any furniture into any of these homes without all hood becoming pink mess. So hopefully this won't happen anymore.

As for my build posts, I was busy with work and creating content for my main community, but I recently installed ts4 Cottage Living EP conversions and I want to makeover Riverblossom Hills with those, so I hope to soon post some new stuff here.

Thank you for still reblogging and liking my builds.

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The Sims 2 Purple Flashing Patch

(yes, PURPLE, because I always saw it as purple and the shader name is literally called the purple error shader. Sue me!!)

Just in case anyone missed it, "pink flashing" in The Sims 2 has finally been busted wide open by a lovely chap named Will Nixon, see here.

I thoroughly recommend reading through the entire dissertation pdf, it's a good read! Even if your eyes glaze over and you skim past the super technical computer engineering jargon, you'll pick up some interesting tidbits from it. Just wanted to share that

1) the patch is fully compatible with Linux and works to improve Linux performance even further, as testing by myself and my dear friend @niamh-sims

2) Some screenshots from testing my medieval hood on Windows 11:

No patch:

With patch:

I also stress-tested the hood by loading into the main Castle lot and having a sim travel between 4-5 different lots with my settings on max. (This is how I play on Linux now so I've gotten used to it, no more turning neighbours and hood deco off for me!!)

Without the patch in, the game crashed and wouldn't load the castle lot for me at ALL, so that was a great start.

Ooft, lol.

With the patch in, I could load into the castle and travel freely around the hood. I noted that that game also generally felt smoother.

This is an absolute breakthrough, people. Linux is no longer absolutely required if you want to play TS2 without pink flashing! Get excited!!

I will personally continue to play on Linux because I honestly enjoy the OS and prefer it over Windows, and my game still loads faster and runs smoother on Linux, but I recommend every simmer download Will's patch (V1 or V2, but V2 is likely safer) and keep it in your essential mods list forever.

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Hello @elenwewy (and thank you for nice words)

Folders of the wall are 4t2 conversion named Slots-a-Lot File-O-Facts and is from this set by Tenlittlepandas

Folder on the table is 4t2 conversion from here by Mdpthatsme

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I am so sorry, I just now noticed my ask box never was opened, but now it's recrified. If you have any more wcif asks, please drop them inside my inbox from now on.

Sorry for a mishap...

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Pinecone Cove Police Station. Booking room and holding cells.

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Pinecone Cove Police Station. Main work office and tiny kitchenette.

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Pinecone Cove Police Station. Corridor/Detective's office/Interrogation room

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Pinecone Cove Police Station. Reception Area

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Pinecone Cove Police Station.

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Tiny Diner interior.

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Tiny diner and drive-thru.

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Tiny Corner Flower Shop Interior.

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Tiny Corner Flower Shop

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Today for some reason my Nvidia graphics drivers decided to corrupt themselves and I lost access to half of my apps, my games included. By some lucky chance I managed to restore to default drivers, and when I already thought I lost my ts2 game, I discovered only one file got corrupted and I successfully managed to replace it, thus saving my game and all the hassle which would have followed with having to reinstall it all.

But on other hand I lost Simpe, I lost sc4, I lost few crucial apps for sims 2 such as clean installer, lot adjuster and hood replace alongside a whole lot of other, non sims related apps.

So... I won't be posting new pictures until I sort this mess out. Hope you'll understand...

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Pinecone Cove Bank. Manager's office and meetings room

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Pinecone Cove Bank. Vault and upper hallway